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Welcome to Spivey‘s Corner
1978 | 17mins
Welcome to Spivey‘s Corner
1978 | 17mins
In 1979 Keir Cline shot footage at the Tenth Annual National Hollerin’ Contest in Spivey’s Corner, a small crossroads community in southeastern North Carolina. The festival had…
Thoughts on Beagling
1997 | 32mins
Thoughts on Beagling
1997 | 32mins
This video documents the breeding, training and hunting of the beagle, the world's most popular hound, by three passionate beaglers: Clayton Bright, a sculptor of sporting art…
Style Wars
1983 | 1h 9mins
Style Wars
1983 | 1h 9mins
New York's legendary Kings of Graffiti own a special place in the hip hop pantheon. Style Wars is regarded by many as the definitive document of the emerging hip hop culture, an…
Showdown at the Hoedown
1976 | 57mins
Showdown at the Hoedown
1976 | 57mins
Salamanders
1982 | 12mins
Salamanders
1982 | 12mins
An annual, weekend party at a college fraternity, which includes swallowing live salamanders develops into a competition among coeds that has sexual overtones. A George…
Rattlesnakes
1992 | 24mins
Rattlesnakes
1992 | 24mins
The annual rattlesnake bagging contest at this tiny Appalachian festival includes a parade, a fair, firefighters’ contests, and a greased pig chase. A George Hornbein/Ken Thigpen…
Raquetteurs
1958 | 14mins
Raquetteurs
1958 | 14mins
This short documentary records the celebration and ritual surrounding a snowshoe competition in Sherbrooke, Canada in the late 1950s. The film marked the beginning of a new…
Pizza Pizza Daddy-O
1968 | 18mins
Pizza Pizza Daddy-O
1968 | 18mins
PIZZA PIZZA DADDY-O (1967) looks at continuity and change in girl's playground games at a Los Angeles school.
Parking Lot
2004 | 22mins
Parking Lot
2004 | 22mins
A gritty glimpse into the youth culture of a small southern town, where cars serve as symbols of contested identities. Taped in Burlington, North Carolina
Musical Holdouts
1975 | 49mins
Musical Holdouts
1975 | 49mins
This classic, entertaining documentary on American traditional music features varied individuals and groups who have not become part of the “melting pot” of American society.
Mr. Jimmy‘s Birthday Challenge
2009 | 26mins
Mr. Jimmy‘s Birthday Challenge
2009 | 26mins
When Mr. Jimmy Moore challenged himself to run 80 kilometers in 1 day for his 80th birthday, his small Mississippi town got behind him to see if they too could "run their age,"…
Learned it in Back Days and Kept It
1981 | 28mins
Learned it in Back Days and Kept It
1981 | 28mins
Portrait of Lucreaty Clark (1903 - 1986), an African American oak basket maker from rural Florida. Clark embraced a wide repertoire of traditional African American songs, games…
Kings of Christmas
2005 | 11mins
Kings of Christmas
2005 | 11mins
The Kings of Christmas, introduces the men and women, the vast majority of whom are Italian-American, behind the biggest, brightest, and most over-the-top holiday decorated houses…
Jazz Parades
1990 | 58mins
Jazz Parades
1990 | 58mins
Alan Lomax's overview of the Jazz scene in New Orleans with interviews and performances by Majestic Band, the Preservation Hall Band (Willie Humphrey, James "Sing" Miller, Emanuel…
It Ain't City Music
1973 | 15mins
It Ain't City Music
1973 | 15mins
It Ain't City Music was filmed at the National Country Music Contest at Lake Whippoorwill in Warrenton, Virginia, in 1972. "Any country song you hear nowadays, the guy's either in…
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